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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez flips out over mocking of her name
NY Post ^ | March 21, 2019 | Mark Moore

Posted on 03/21/2019 7:59:05 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

What’s in a name? Everything for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The New York Democrat blasted Fox News host Laura Ingraham and her guest for mocking how she pronounced her name and saying she does so because it’s a “Latina thing.”

“If by ‘the Latina thing,’ she means I actually do the work instead of just talk about it, then yeah, I’m doing ‘the Latina thing,’” she wrote on her Twitter page late Wednesday. “Unless of course she‘s talking about being multilingual, which we know isn’t a ‘Latina thing.’ It’s a ‘21st century’ thing.”

Ocasio-Cortez also said that Fox News’ hosts incorrectly pronounce her name as “Cortez,” because that sounds “more ‘stereotypically’ Hispanic + probably incites more ‘anxiety’ for them.”

“Pro Tip: My last name is not ‘Cortez,’ just as theirs isn’t ‘Ingra’ or ‘Carl’ or ‘Hann,'” she said, referring to Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity.

Ingraham, on her Fox News show “The Ingraham Angle” on Tuesday, asked guest Joe diGenova if he had noticed how when Ocasio-Cortez pronounces her name “does she take on that Obama, Obama put on accents?”

“She does the Latina thing where she does her, you know, ‘Anastasio Ocasio-Cortez,'” said diGenova, a conservative lawyer, exaggerating the pronunciation.

Ingraham went on to call Ocasio-Cortez the “It Girl, and I mean girl in a very mature way.”

Ocasio-Cortez continued to school the two on the correct use of her name.

“My last name is Ocasio-Cortez. Full stop. That’s my name. No, you can’t say ‘Cortez.’ I’ve never used that in my life,” she said. “‘Cortez’ is referring to someone else. Even if they‘re trying to be rude + wrong, my dad’s last name was Ocasio anyway. (His name was hyphenated too, though.)”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: aoc; berniesanders; newyork; ocasiocortez; vermont
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To: hal ogen

I’m still a fan of “pompous little twit” and hoping that one sticks.


61 posted on 03/21/2019 8:55:57 AM PDT by HumbleButExceedinglyAccurate
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To: metmom

She probably thinks they mispronounced her name and would spend an exaggerated amount of time helping someone say her name correctly. Never understanding the inside joke about “Occasional Cortex”.

But I use it all the time.


62 posted on 03/21/2019 9:07:56 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Fifteen minutes and the clock is ticking...


63 posted on 03/21/2019 9:08:05 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Crusher138

Jerry Rivers = Geraldo Rivera


64 posted on 03/21/2019 9:09:46 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (If only Harvey Weinstein's bathrobe could talk.)
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To: rktman
SANDY OCASIO from Westchester


65 posted on 03/21/2019 9:21:18 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (If only Harvey Weinstein's bathrobe could talk.)
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To: cuban leaf

I refuse to use AOC. Catchy nicknames signify respect.

My wife calls her “Deer in the headlights girl”


66 posted on 03/21/2019 9:30:49 AM PDT by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: SkyDancer

If Mr. Ed had a daughter! Just saying! Or somewhere there’s a Beaver Dam missing a Beaver!


67 posted on 03/21/2019 9:36:55 AM PDT by vette6387 (Fire Mueller)
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To: Crusher138
"...He has, for the past year, been using Duolingo to work on his Spanish and Google translate to do the heavy lifting..."

LOL, well...I guess he is learning then!

68 posted on 03/21/2019 9:41:14 AM PDT by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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To: COUNTrecount

I’ll stick with calling her an ignorant twit.


69 posted on 03/21/2019 9:41:21 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: COUNTrecount
“Pro Tip: My last name is not ‘Cortez,’ just as theirs isn’t ‘Ingra’ or ‘Carl’ or ‘Hann,'” she said, referring to Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity.

Okay then, "Cortez" it is.

70 posted on 03/21/2019 9:44:34 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Crusher138

I once knew a representative from a large company, and he would visit me on occasion to check on status, peddle new products or features and such. He was young, stocky, with a blonde flat top crewcut, and he was from Australia with a very rich Aussie accent. I liked him, and he seemed very much like a rugby player you might encounter in a bar having a Guinness.

It was that accent, which many Americans (including myself) can be suckers for...it just invites familiarity!

“Heya Mate! What’s on with ya?” type of thing...

So I see him at a conference talking to someone, and as I approach, I can hear the conversation as he speaks...in completely unaccented “American” English!

I found it hilarous...I never let on that I knew it was just an angle for him to turn on and off as needed...:)


71 posted on 03/21/2019 9:48:03 AM PDT by rlmorel (If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
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To: COUNTrecount

“Ocasio-Cortez continued to school the two on the correct use of her name.”

Does mean that name ‘Occasional Kotex’ isn’t correct?


72 posted on 03/21/2019 9:48:54 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: COUNTrecount
"...my dad’s last name was Ocasio anyway. (His name was hyphenated too, though.)”

Hmmmmm... then shouldn't it be spelled 'Ocasio-anyway'????

73 posted on 03/21/2019 10:00:05 AM PDT by DJ Frisat ( (optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: COUNTrecount
Awwwww-Accidental Occasional-Kotex is upset?
She isn't qualified to hand out towels in a bodega bathroom.
74 posted on 03/21/2019 10:07:14 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: COUNTrecount
Awwwww-Accidental Occasional-Kotex is upset?
She isn't qualified to hand out towels in a bodega bathroom.
75 posted on 03/21/2019 10:07:15 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

One would think she served someone who later was picked up for DUI. Many bars get sued over that.


76 posted on 03/21/2019 10:08:54 AM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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To: COUNTrecount

Typical of any leftist, can dish it out all day long but can’t take it.


77 posted on 03/21/2019 10:10:56 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: ClearBlueSky
She isn't qualified to hand out towels in a bodega bathroom.

Bodegas have bathrooms? Must be something new in NYC, they never had them when I was there.

78 posted on 03/21/2019 10:42:41 AM PDT by rllngrk33 (Time for all patriotic Americans to boycott liberals and all SJW/PC bullsh*t.)
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To: liberalh8ter

So I guess Occasional Consciousness or Occasional Coherence are out now.


79 posted on 03/21/2019 10:44:17 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: COUNTrecount

I’m convinced that a significant number of the votes she received was primarily or exclusively because of her hyphenated latina last name. Tribal votes by ignorant people who had no idea who she was or anything about her, other than their belief that she’s one of them based on her name.

Same with Loretta Brixey winning in Santa Ana, CA. Oops, I mean Loretta Sanchez, the married woman who suddenly rediscovered her maiden name when she entered politics.


80 posted on 03/21/2019 10:44:43 AM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Wake me when a prominent democrat gets prosecuted. ))))
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